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week's top stories here in r.t. nato wraps up its campaign hailing a free libya after colonel gadhafi was killed but disturbing images of his final moments raise questions about the nation's future. the politicians are so wedded to the idea of trying to protect the euro but that is a big mistake it's becoming a ticking time bomb the leaders brainstorm ways to save the eurozone and slash greece's massive debt after another round of high water in cuts to secure a bailout to the violence in the streets. tear gas fails to stop after excerpts from havana nato's attempt to dismantle their barricades at the disputed border crossing in the impossible and. on board the safest rock in the world the first part of the e.u. satellite navigation system is successfully sand into orbit ready to give america's g.p.s. some competition. this
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is r.t. coming to you live from moscow marina joshie we take an in-depth look at the top stories of the week and this week marked the end of colonel gadhafi as grip on media but the man the mystery surrounding his death in captivity as sparked international calls for an investigation with the official account that he was killed in a crossfire widely question levy is now looking to hold elections within eight months but is there actually is any so now reports from tripoli there's much cynicism over whether things will change could off easy. go in with handshakes and hug now his. feet and his family and a lot of. foreign involvement in fact that he was always going to trade is a great goal he also played
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a lot of thinking with western powers. graphics gruesome footage of the town he went viral as news of his death spread after months of being number one nato placed under the banner humanitarian mission. we came restocked. libya and t.c. claims he was killed in crossfire but i didn't video begs to differ so clearly my being one from his head then i read that it took a little bit of use of the footage shown on t.v. proves that he was captured alive and well and also that she was killed. so the pressure is growing for an investigation for find out if it's down to die as clinton put it or was executed the un human rights organization should all push not only for investigation. and certainly the lynching of many
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of the libyan members of the. support the gadhafi but also the bombings that inflicted in libya that destroyed so many of libya's infrastructure and also so many libyan civilians who died in the u.s. who were killed in the first three alliance officials claim the mission in libya is coming through the no fly zone will be reviewed at the u.n. security council but many believe this is only the end of the feet and the beginning of a new era of crisis that libya is in for a period of horrendous chaos after the needle. it's brought parts of libya back to the stone age some play the race for the country's oil has kicked off france is already demanding thirty five percent of libya's gross national gross oil production and i suspect that the people of libya will be furious and outraged that
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they are paying france for having the infrastructure having destroyed the schools the hospitals the the water supply and importantly united in hatred for get down might not stand together now that he's gone all these different groups and that we were all together but one thing and that was a trick of the. that's gone away you can redirect their anger at each other and i think. chaos ensues and political instability there's a lot of people looking back on libya. which and you go back there now and that is not a great celebration continues throughout the week across the country and it seems few people here are really thinking about the future of libya without gadhafi it really means for them a country with no leader a lot of weapons and even more oil reporting from tripoli and he's now a party. and you can also follow correspondingly viennese and always twitter stream
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is bringing you the latest developments from the country to take a look at the u.s. greed or the death of gadhafi was jubilation president barack obama calling it a strong reminder of america's leadership in the world and a national consultant and author and he says western powers should also be held accountable for the killing which was motivated by regime change. this is a message for the whole world i don't think this is just about libya we are seeing how i think hillary clinton secretary of state of the united states expressed it very clearly this is a message to the world of how this new world order model actually works when we decide to take only rejean they do so with the utmost violence and it's a whole model based on orwellian newspeak so to speak first the targeting role of a country by calling it a rogue state there to support local terrorists and call them freedom fighters then
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they bring death and destruction upon civilians and the u.n. sanctions then they spread lies and call it the international community's opinion expressed by the western media then they invade and control the country and call it liberation and finally they steal appetising oil and call it foreign investments and reconstruction. it's a race against time for the e.u. leaders to resolve the euro zone debt crisis and he arrived for a new round of marathon talks in brussels readers are still trying to work out a comprehensive plan to try and save the euro german chancellor angela merkel promising breakthrough by wednesday they gather for a summit and they're already agreed on measure is is for banks to raise more than one hundred billion euro to withstand possible losses to get it countries such as greece but some financial analysts believe the problem is being tackled from the wrong and altogether. it's a common see union that is not an optimal commons here that doesn't work for most
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of its members that belong within the eurozone within the single currency area so the longer they keep the euro go eat as it is the longer the economic problems will last so be more words on the streets of athens will be more pain felt by the greek people dragging down the whole of the european union that's what happens when you take away people's democracy and you centralize power to a relatively small clique of people the politicians are so wedded to the idea of trying to protect of the euro but that is a big mistake is becoming a ticking time bomb so if there was an economic reality an economic sense for failing amongst the european political class they will take action and dismantle the euro that is the answer and there should happen soon. greece remains the epicenter of the eurozone debt crisis this week a new set of austerity measures was voted in by parliament all but securing the
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next installment of bailout cash from the e.u. however the resulting violent protests in athens and beyond shell the public is at breaking point r.t. sarah ferguson is in the greek capital. processor become a regular occurrence fearing praying behind the crisis things that's growing public angry because of a there's a lot that means that the people here in the country have been cutting their wages by around thirty percent in most cases i'll talk about that side of the time since the public spending i'm finding here in the country is cripplingly high within the emergence of a new generation of homeless these nurses reading these things have affected everyone here in great. i can. hear. that good. stuff was done. paul's son five one of the nice all of the people who were in the fight peacefully because we were all
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our lives come. the young and the people from all walks of quick life to end the today protest the largest police to seen since the crisis began one of the nice violent true for our rights it wasn't just the thank you once again pulling a there with fights breaking out not just with the police but in the us the place has to be sells greek society is facing a social disaster for the past two years we've received austerity package after austerity package people are beyond third breaking point we cannot stand it anymore . this is just a phrase he says with an appetite change the debate was cost and top government this is did applies in a position then to saying he's think for the nation business struggling with his conscience he's not the only one speaking to police major after the protest that
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starts them and tell me it's a question of the riot police involved in these events in the school of business it is very hard to describe the feelings. the police because they are true a social and professional group who are suffering british comedy from others to the government has to keep them sometimes it is really hard for them to keep part of these protesters working people once more they have to take to the streets to protest the days he wanted to make their points peacefully the rest of europe and the i need to be watching this very closely because this is just a problem that affects great. thank you so you can see what the people in the country by now are willing to go through that happen to. the people here are going to have to wait a while longer see if anyone from now be ready to listen. and
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still have for you this hour here in r.t.e. a triumphant return. they love me i'm not embarrassed to say that the government of the country are not doing enough for my son and for the rest of those missing in action israeli soldier gilad shalit comes home after being exchanged for the sounds and palestinian prisoners leaving some families to feel they are a lost children and for god. and a wall street protesters warned that americans are under attack from banks fattening up their profits while the are tightening their belts. and nato led forces in chaos or have failed to remove barricades put up by ethnic serbs and a disputed border crossing serbs set up the roadblocks back in july one customer authorities began to install their own customs controls. as a story. as months of tension between serbs and the snicko ben and of course was continue roads in all them cause they remain closed for some serbs of fortifying
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the barricades and see themselves again as victims of history these cartoons reach we defeated your grand that we defeated your father's. well we know again local serbs compare the nature led peacekeeping force in kosovo ok for the fascist occupiers of the past they'll then why didn't think they can come and take our land serbia's our home we don't want to live in albania hollowed out on the lookout they armored we have nothing but flag and faith in god some two hundred meters away they took a four soldiers keep watching i would appreciate solution i talked plain agreement which i did all this in the last week but if that is not to be reached i have to be on my own i have to fall back on my own needs. some of them are. no surprise the generals only means and military ones the status quo in northern
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kosovo remains the standoff between k. four soldiers and local serbs of millions is no cause it's a resolution of people from both sides of the barricades a glide to avoid any further violence away from media glare hostility is commonplace. this twenty three year old syrian man was with his father when he was shot just three weeks ago visited. in courses where serbs a minority living in tiny and claves i was waiting for a car and i saw him coming out of the old cafeteria and i heard two gunshots and my dad fell down i watched him and i was worried guide immediately i didn't even say goodbye to him. nobody would shows us his wounds he was shocked when his father's killer is try to eliminate the only witness i will never return to the point. i'm worrying about my family and myself in
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a separate incident just last week another an armed service was killed in a confrontation with the local these two men together with their friend mir drug they follow the big family went to see what used to be served land now owned by ethnic albanians since serbs fled after nature's nine hundred ninety nine bombing of yugoslavia they were stopped by the in your pocket hire them we talked for five minutes then he said he needed to come back to his car to take in some form became a kalashnikov do you want your number he shouted and started farming out on drug was killed at the scene the man who just lost their france they there is only one reason he was killed. just because we are serbs periods eleven years after the end of major conflict here and despite the presence of international peacekeepers violence seems to be still part of everyday life for some in this troubled breakaway province and there is little sign but change raif nationality.
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ok for troops resorted to tear gas and pepper spray to disperse the crowd of serbs guarding the blockade in the north cost of a certain canadian documentary maker for a small group thinks that by meddling in an internal conflict nato is pursuing its own agenda. for as acting as a force to further nato's goals in the province of kosovo and this is something that is just a continuation of their policies for the last ten years the serbs who remain in kosovo they're living in horrible conditions basically living in a ghetto and they have been there and their presence there is a form of silent protest against what is happening there as they do not want to leave their homeland they want to stay with this they were the aryans thing the country in which they were born in which they believe was there is the serbs there are saying no to the west and if this was happening in a country where mido in the west supports the regime of that country they would be
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hailing the serbs as freedom fighters and fighters for human rights of course because the west does support the government in pristina installed in their criminalising awaiting serbs and demonizing them once again and presenting them as criminals the people who want to make a profit out of all this while the west is in fact those who want to make a profit out of them posing you know customs over there. has been hailed as a historic middle east prisoner exchange where there were a thousand palestinians being swapped for just one israeli soldier gilad shalit was freed following five years in captivity and a massive campaign for his release in israel and he's homecomings a lot many jewish families better supposedly are found out. every day. comes here to a place that looks after israeli soldiers who are alone in the country who come from difficult backgrounds but being here is often more of a comfort to him than the youngsters he hopes because it brings him that little bit closer to his son measuring who disappeared one year before gilad shalit was taken
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hostage. i have said this over and over again our government and the country are now doing. commuter's the media. there are at the moment seven israeli soldiers who've been kidnapped or who missing in action now is nice and magically disappeared while hitchhiking to his army base major want to ride was captured twenty five years ago after his aircraft was shot down of eleven on these of the last pictures of him alive taken in a prison in iran guy haven't disappeared fourteen years ago he was last seen at his army base one kilometer from the syrian border. it's infuriating it's an acceptable that after fourteen years the government still has nothing to tell us our demand is that the government bring this any information or a lie said here in lebanon and syria just bring it to they've brought us nothing of the. solution whose son is still alive and while she's pleased to be learned is
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coming home she's just allusion to a new government that made it possible for him but not for her son. it's about media attention p.r. how do arts nearly succeeded in marketing their son we saw it as a family this was a browser we thought it was in the guy was an i.d.f. soldier. in the uniform but we were wrong very very wrong. this is a country that depends on its army for its survival is an unwritten code that if the soldier who goes to war must be tossed back home this would be hard but i'll be freaking actually campaign for nearly two years his brain his family and so little can here in front of the prime minister's office every morning when the time they are left his home he was reminded about the soldier who cannot return to his beloved a man bears to say that their government and their country are not doing enough for
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my son and the rest of those missing in action it is important for us to bring our soldiers on a spiritual sanderson's to war we need to know the country will do everything possible to get them back or it's done just that in the case of gilad shalit but at what cost will militants now be empowered to kidnap another israeli soldier and will israel be willing to pay this price again policy or our team. from maureen dowd's coverage and exclusive footage here to our website r t v dot com. iraq's refusal to grant u.s. soldiers an extended stay with diplomatic immunity means the troops are heading home you'll find the details online. and the heart of moscow eliminated in a grandiose laser show check out this spectacular video on r.t. dot com our website and our words you tube channel. earlier in the week around five hundred people marched through new york advanced tough police tactics
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in dispersing and to corporate protests on friday over thirty occupy wall street activists were arrested demonstrators complained police are taking to having an approach to their continuing peaceful rallies it's week five of the occupy wall street protest against the banks and washington's inability to do something about it and the growing gap between rich and poor is something which could cost the government here has got hitched you can now explains. the class war seemed impossible in a country were being wealthy east part of the national green good as thousands marched on wall street and in other parts of america protesting against the system that they claim works only for the benefit of a few super rich individuals and corporations many ask whether america is facing a class war that it's only when the ritual getting ritual a little bit worse is the last class war is being waged in a burka today fortunately the world saw it is what it is so-called one percent of
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winners are the nation's top corporations which this year in the economy is very slow growth non the less made record profits the things to various loopholes but these corporations pay little or nothing in the corporations say they need the tax breaks to be able to invest more in to hire more america's second largest energy producers chevron is now lobbying not to let the government tax them more and to. my question how many americans has chevron hired since the tax breaks were introduced in two thousand and four the c.e.o. of the company said they were up slightly a few thousand in iraq strained business over the years but not significantly not significantly on our chevron payroll a few thousand jobs for the billions of dollars in tax stimulus that the government gave the economy same erika's largest corporations are sitting on more than three trillion dollars and not investing in the economy unemployment in the us remains
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over nine percent when we live in a nation where corporations could profit off a child dying at the same time with their parents in a bankruptcy because they're trying to pay for these kids' medical bills. what does that say about our country the wall street answer to people's rage if you kill all three will be nobody oh great job but as one of the protesters try to put a word of objection we call it all done all done it's not your show monkey i'm talking to these people all done and look ok do you think you can thank you talking for your personal success and money have always been part of the american dream three women reap the aspiration to become rich is deeply ingrained in american society and widely promoted by pop culture but those who took to the streets have made it clear that the situation when the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer is not their idea of the american dream in fact it would be the end
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of it and the beginning of a class war i'm going to shift our reporting from washington our to. alice take a look at some other stories from around the world polls have open internees as historical selecting constitutional sampling nine months after the first arab spring revolution saw a long time dictator ben ali stepped down two nations are faced with overwhelming choice more than one hundred parties and ten thousand candidates are competing for one hundred ninety nine seats in the assam with a first duty is once the. bodys elected will be the redrafting of tunisia's constitution. the funks german satellite has made its rianne tree into earth's atmosphere after more than ten years of an activity most of it burned up during re-entry but up to thirty fragments including a one point seven ton telescope are thought to have crashed on the surface scientists were unable to communicate with a satellite before we entry and are trying to determine its fate the german air space center says the likelihood of debris from the craft causing injury is
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extremely low. turkish soldiers have killed at least forty nine kurdish rebels in a massive air and ground offensive near the iraq border that's where the operations were launched earlier this week as a response to the death of twenty four soldiers killed by fighters of the kurdistan workers party turkey has reportedly mobilized ten thousand troops in south east of the country and across the border in iraq. thailand's prime minister says the worst floods to hit the country in sixty years will likely take six weeks to recede at least three hundred fifty six people have lost their life so far the number which has been growing day by day over one hundred ten thousand have been displaced from their waterlogged homes the country is also faced with having price tag of rebuilding because of damage to factories homes and farmland is estimated in the billions of dollars. on friday a russian so yes rocket lifted off from
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a space base in the tropics carrying the first parts of the european satellite navigation system a power through have the rain after a one day delay or tuesday i watched it go. the launch of a russian space history the first ever liftoff of the school used book into the worst position as the leader in the field it's one thousand seven hundred successful takeoffs way ahead of any other rival so when the french team began plans to send galileo satellites into orbit it was first choice when we needed. to go from here we immediately thought of for you. as europe's america's g.p.s. navigation system promising much greater accuracy and reliability with so used to launch it the e.u. is confident so use is one of the best. on the size so
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we put together the best complexity team and together we can be the best and beat all the old. open and the soyuz and it's just simply have had to be specially adapted to handle the challenges brought by the tropical climate for croix from its sister sites in russia's north and the steps of. the soil to needed work including . clearance of one hundred twenty hectares of jungle forest for the launch under a new agreement soyuz is to send many more satellites for europe into orbit from the site with much of the equipment being built in russia and then shipped to french guy on a massive boost for the russian space industry as for the future well speaking only about range ground and poorer. there's a contract country of fifty or so years can you imagine fifty or so years which means that for the minimum six seven years. and the moscow
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factories they will be fully engaged and they have lots of work to do this success cements the reputation of soyuz as the world's top space launch program but it also turns a new page in relations between the european union and russia senior figures with the two expressed optimism of a new corporation to galileo satellite into little bit without a glitch to the cheers of the lords team and guests in russian soyuz means duty and both the e.u. and russia will be hoping the project will indeed mean a union of interests and close a partnership a new bushel altie french guiana. how is the occupy wall street movement going to change the face of america that's the question we're asking our interview in a few minutes but before that all these young week's top stories stay with us.
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